got to participate in my first scientific conference this past week. flew out to victoria bc to present some preliminary data and witness many different awesome speakers and talk to some of the bigger minds in canadian exercise physiology. mostly hung out with the neuromuscular crew but stu phillips gave a talk on protein requirements and metabolism if any of you recognize the name. some extremely smart muscular physiologists and mechanists gave me some dope ideas so im pumped to be back ready to collect some fukin datas

dear diary

share in easily understandable terms the cool information you learned
even in point form if you will.

CSEP aerobic exercise guidelines need to be revised or reconstructed, prescribing exercise based on percentages of v02max or work rate does not actually make sense because of the slow component rise in vo2. basically for the first 30-40 percent of aerobic exercise intensity is predictable based on a linear equation. after you hit your lactate threshold you start to see non-linear or unpredictable changes in vo2 per work rate and those changes are highly unique to the individual. interestingly you can have two people of very similar fitness working at the same percentage of their max work rate, say 250 watts on a bike or running at 12km/h, and even though both have the same max work rate and are working at a similarly high intensity relatively speaking, the two individuals can have drastically different responses in their physiology. one person may be able to sustain this work rate for a long, almost indefinite time, the other will gas within 15 min and go to complete exhaustion. so even for two people who have the same max work rate, performance is often determined by this critical work rate or critical power, and if you work below this rate you can exercise until you run out of fuel. if you go even a few watts above your critical power, you WILL induce fatigue in some short period of time. this is applicable for you dan in terms of fire fighting. you can have two guys with similar physical stats, the same vo2max and have them carrying the same amount of gear. if their critical powers are different, one will perhaps be working below critical power and will not fatigue, but the other might fatigue in less time than they actually spend working in a fire. this critical power is probably trainable and is the most important predictor of performance in athletics.

e: that was the gist of one of the key note talks from my buddy at western who completed his phd last year and is now a post-doc fellow at some cardiovascular center in toronto. hes a smart fuking guy. ill try to remember what else i heard about

This post was edited by cloudkicker on Oct 17 2016 10:38am

Glad to hear man.

I don't think people truly realize how these types of events can just light a fire under you for your own lab work.

I'm new in the exercise science field so I haven't been to any, but I have been to a few for cellular and molecular bio and they definitely got me more interested in my lab work.



Actually taking a test tomorrow on this.

VO2max with slow component and drift, lactate threshold, economy of effort, etc.

This post was edited by Braxton11 on Oct 17 2016 10:47am

also have a midterm tomorrow, cartilage and connective tissue physiology, histology, cell biology, musculoskeletal genetics :C

What was said on protein requirements

i actually skipped out on that lecture haha got sushi with a potential supervisor instead. the title of his talk made it seem like he was suggesting a minimum effective dose for protein intake and then also hypertrophic exercise

Did they say anything about celltech?

lol if only

Darn.
Pretty interesting notes there though, I've been forced by so many friends to participate in their VO2 max studies for their masters etc. I hate everything about it now but I still find it interesting.